Culture, Personhood, and Subjectivity in South Asia

Introduction to cultures of South Asia through inquiry into identity, personhood and experience in everyday life. In diverse contexts, asks how concepts of self and personhood are formed, and what cultural and political structures hold people together and establish difference, considering topics including changing forms of family life, performances of gender, caste and caste-politics, and histories of community identity, with focus on ways hierarchies are maintained and challenged.